Wood Planks

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Wood Planks
First Appearance pre-Classic rd-160052
Type of Block Solid Block
Stackable Yes 64
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For other wood-related articles, see Wood (Disambiguation).

Wood Planks are the easiest non-natural block to obtain. They function as both a material for structures, as well as a crafting ingredient.

Overview[edit | edit source]

Wooden planks can be created by putting a block or more of wood in the crafting grid (either a crafting table or a player's inventory grid). When this is done, four wood planks are recovered per log. It appears as a series of interconnected planks. It is good for creating a support style for buildings and also making houses, huts or shacks.

Wooden planks are a renewable resource. Despite being easily burnt down, Wood is easy to obtain in biomes where trees can be found, and thus is useful as a building material. Naturally generated wood planks can be found in abandoned mine shafts, villages, pillager outposts, shipwrecks, woodland mansions, and witch huts. Oak-wood planks are used in villages and mineshafts, dark oak wood planks are used in abandoned mineshafts and badlands biomes, and spruce planks are seen in swamp huts.

As of 1.3.1, wood planks are contained inside of bonus chests, for a quicker start in survival mode.

Wooden Plank Types[edit | edit source]

File:300px-Wood Species.png
The saplings/fungi (bottom) grow into the wood logs/stems (top), which craft into the wood planks (central)
  • Oak wood planks
  • Birch wood planks
  • Jungle wood planks
  • Spruce wood planks
  • Dark oak wood planks
  • Acacia wood planks
  • Crimson Stem planks
  • Warped Stem planks

Usage[edit | edit source]

Wood planks have a wide variety of uses. They are good for giving buildings and homes a cabin-like appearance. However, wood is sometimes discouraged for use as a building material (especially in multiplayer), as the house could be burned down. Wood planks are an essential crafting material for the most basic of tools, as well as a vital material for those beginning the game and attempting to survive their first couple of days. Wood planks can be used as fuel for furnaces (smelting 1 1/2 items per plank). If used for smelting, it is more efficient to use wooden planks rather than logs because they have the same smelting duration, and the log contains enough wood for 4 planks; however, it is even more efficient to use those planks to smelt logs, providing charcoal (which smelts 8 items). It is not advised to have a fireplace unless one can be assured that their wooden house will not burn down. Try putting non-flammable blocks around the fire area, such as cobblestone.


Crafting[edit | edit source]

Wood Planks x4
(Shapeless recipe)
Button
(Shapeless recipe)
None None None None None None
None Log None None Wood Planks None
None None None None None None
Stick Sign
None None None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
None Wood Planks None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
None Wood Planks None None Stick None
Door Pressure Plate
Wood Planks Wood Planks None None None None
Wood Planks Wood Planks None None Wood Planks Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks None None None None
Slabs Piston
None None None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Cobblestone Iron Ingot Cobblestone
None None None Cobblestone Redstone Cobblestone
Crafting Table Chest
None None None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks None Wood Planks None Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Stairs Bowl
None None Wood Planks None None None
None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks None Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks None Wood Planks None
Boat Fence
None None None None None None
Wood Planks None Wood Planks Wood Planks Stick Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Stick Wood Planks
Fence Gate Jukebox
None None None Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Stick Wood Planks Stick Wood Planks Diamond Wood Planks
Stick Wood Planks Stick Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Note Block Bookshelf
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Wood Planks Redstone Wood Planks Book Book Book
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
Bed Sword
None None None None Wood Planks None
Wool Wool Wool None Wood Planks None
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks None Stick None
Pickaxe Axe
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks None
None Stick None Wood Planks Stick None
None Stick None None Stick None
Shovel Hoe
None Wood Planks None Wood Planks Wood Planks None
None Stick None None Stick None
None Stick None None Stick None
Shield
Wood Planks Iron Ingot Wood Planks
Wood Planks Wood Planks Wood Planks
None Wood Planks None


Video[edit | edit source]

Gallery[edit | edit source]

File:WoodenPlanksNew.gif
Click for full Wood Planks gallery.

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